Voting impediments are oppressive

Editor, Letter to the Arkansas Secretary of State Mark Martin: I am appalled by the news that Trump’s new “Voting Integrity Commission” has requested very extensive...

True value of solar

Distributed generation is needed to mitigate the climate breakdown Entergy Arkansas (EA), the utility with the largest number of customers in the state, claims electric...

AnOutlook

On Our Plate “It’s a turkey,” my friend said, referring not to Thursday’s lunch but the season. The comment was followed by a litany of...

Another Opinion

The death of Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg is the latest explosion in this strange Year 4 of Our Trump. Reading fond obituaries...

Another Opinion

I recently received the newsletter from Carroll Electric Cooperative Corp., “On the Record,” from President/CEO, Rob Boaz. Mr. Boaz establishes his own concerns about...

American Insights

The Right to Resist Born at Cape Cod and educated at Harvard, the Reverend Samuel West was a patriot. But above all, he was a...

Another Opinion

Al Larson              Board President                    allarson@es.k12.ar.us Candace Spaulding                                             spaulding777@live.com Chris McClung                                                     cmcclung1017@gmail.com Gayla Wolfinbarger                                             gwolfinbarger@es.k12.ar.us Jason Morris                                                         jmorris@es.k12.ar.us Jayme Wildeman                                                 jaymewildeman@es.k12.ar.us          Joe Hill                                                                   joe.hill.@es.k12.ar.us          From the Lovely County Citizen, 7/11/2013 “As trustees...

Two-leggeds helping four-leggeds

Editor, What a generous community we live in. Our hearts are moved by all the creative efforts to help those suffering after Hurricane Harvey, from ECHO’s...

Will miss the Chief

Editor, When I heard of Police Chief Thomas Achord’s resignation, I was set aback and had to take a pause and reflect. I truly appreciate what...

Independent Editorial – Taking what’s offered

Years ago, on a cold winter afternoon in the mid-1960s, a young boy was walking home from school in Seligman, Mo., right up the...